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snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-28 06:00 pm20 rumors we've investigated about Chicago
Snopes has looked into a number of claims about the Windy City throughout the years, from rumors about crime to stories of alligators in its river.
Snopes.com (snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-28 01:00 pm
snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-28 01:00 pmDon't fall for rumor Erika Kirk launched Christian dating app after husband's death
The rumor spread with an image supposedly showing a social media post by Charlie Kirk's widow. The post wasn't real.
New Scientist - Home (newscientist_feed) wrote2025-09-24 07:00 pm
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Thinking you don’t fit in is agonising, whether you are starting at university or changing jobs. Our advice columnist, David Robson, shares some tips to change how you feel
New Scientist - Home (newscientist_feed) wrote2025-09-28 07:00 am
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Inhalers that combine relieving breathlessness with preventing it seem to be the most effective option for reducing asthma attacks in young children
fred_mouse (fred_mouse) wrote2025-09-28 11:11 am
fred_mouse) wrote2025-09-28 11:11 amWedding!
I had a swathe of things I was hoping to do this morning, but each one I do takes longer than I was anticipating. One of the things I'm abandoning off the list is a well thought out blog post.
In other news,
Middlest is getting married.
At the Zoo.
In about 3 hours
And it is raining (it most likely won't be by then, but now I'm in a tizz about which trousers to wear to go with which jacket because I had not planned for 'dammit, I'll get cold'. I've already hemmed one pair of trousers, going to have to do another. very much appreciating magical hemming tape)
silver_chipmunk (silver_chipmunk) wrote2025-09-27 10:17 pm
silver_chipmunk) wrote2025-09-27 10:17 pm
Revisiting the con
Got up this morning at 9:00 for my Al-anon meeting. Had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and headed over.
Made the meeting early and helped set up. The meeting was good, but I didn't go to the diner afterwards. That's because instead of the regular diner trip to the Neptune diner, people were going to meet the son of a member who died last year and was in town now for I think the unveiling of her grave. I didn't know her well at all, in fact I'm not sure I could put a face to her name, so I didn't feel I should go.
So I went back home and got on the Starsky and Hutch chat, which today was a recap and discussion of SHarecon. It was very enjoyable.mashfanficchick was there, which was nice. And Flamingo was there to hear what we had to say.
We chatted until a little after 5:00, and then ended. After that I puttered online and as usual at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. This time Teams did not act up like last night and we had a good time til 8:30.
I had dinner and then went to the bedroom and went through my zines. Sadly I discovered that, of the freebies I brought home from the con, I already had two. I am either going to give them tomashfanficchick or, if ze doesn't want them, I'll hopefully be able to bring them to the next in-person SHarecon for the freebie table. Fingers crossed there will be a next one. We won't know for certain for about a year. But it looks hopeful.
Anyway, then I calledmashfanficchick and talked a bit. Possibly I will see zer tomorrow, we shall see.
I played solitaire til pet feeding time, and then I fed the pets, and here I am.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My meetings and the people there.
3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.
4. It didn't rain until tonight.
5. Popsicles.
6. Zines.
Made the meeting early and helped set up. The meeting was good, but I didn't go to the diner afterwards. That's because instead of the regular diner trip to the Neptune diner, people were going to meet the son of a member who died last year and was in town now for I think the unveiling of her grave. I didn't know her well at all, in fact I'm not sure I could put a face to her name, so I didn't feel I should go.
So I went back home and got on the Starsky and Hutch chat, which today was a recap and discussion of SHarecon. It was very enjoyable.
mashfanficchick was there, which was nice. And Flamingo was there to hear what we had to say.We chatted until a little after 5:00, and then ended. After that I puttered online and as usual at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. This time Teams did not act up like last night and we had a good time til 8:30.
I had dinner and then went to the bedroom and went through my zines. Sadly I discovered that, of the freebies I brought home from the con, I already had two. I am either going to give them to
mashfanficchick or, if ze doesn't want them, I'll hopefully be able to bring them to the next in-person SHarecon for the freebie table. Fingers crossed there will be a next one. We won't know for certain for about a year. But it looks hopeful.Anyway, then I called
mashfanficchick and talked a bit. Possibly I will see zer tomorrow, we shall see.I played solitaire til pet feeding time, and then I fed the pets, and here I am.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My meetings and the people there.
3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.
4. It didn't rain until tonight.
5. Popsicles.
6. Zines.
Snopes.com (snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-28 02:00 am
snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-28 02:00 amSimone Biles didn't respond to Charlie Kirk once calling her 'a disgrace'
The slain conservative activist's comments, mostly from 2021, included Kirk asking of the U.S. Olympic gymnast, "Is she a pervert or something?"
On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams (dewline) wrote2025-09-27 09:09 pm
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Entry tags:
Checking In - 27 Sept. 2025
Something called "National Security Presidential Memorandum 7" is now a thing?
Snopes.com (snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 11:00 pm
snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 11:00 pmNazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels banned comedians for joking about Nazi Party
Online users reposted the newspaper article from Feb. 4, 1939, following ABC's initial September 2025 announcement of suspending "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
conuly (conuly) wrote2025-09-26 08:48 pm
conuly) wrote2025-09-26 08:48 pmSo, I thought I was getting a palmsized scrubbie brush with a soap dispenser
but it was a set of two regular palmsized scrubbie brushes for dishes. Which was disappointing, but E made the amazing discovery that they are really fun to smash together, bristle to bristle, so that's all right.
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Snopes.com (snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 06:00 pm
snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 06:00 pm12 rumors about autism that Snopes has investigated
Here's a look into our efforts to dispel misinformation about the widely misunderstood condition.
Snopes.com (snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 05:19 pm
snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 05:19 pmMelania Trump didn't plagiarize UN speech from author C.J. Cherryh
The author could not recall writing these words in her book "Downbelow Station."
grayswandir (grayswandir) wrote2025-09-27 11:37 pm
grayswandir) wrote2025-09-27 11:37 pmAndy Lau birthday post ❤️❤️❤️
Andy Lau is 64 today! 🎈🎈🎈
He didn't post anything on his website for his birthday this year, but a couple of days ago on Douyin he did put up a 2½-hour concert video from last year's concert tour. I just finally had the chance to watch it tonight, and enjoyed it a lot. ❤️ All the footage is from the Hong Kong leg of the tour, so even though I don't think any of the specific song recordings are from the nights I was in the audience, it all felt quite familiar and was fun to revisit. I do wish his company would put out proper high-quality concert DVDs like they used to do (the image quality on the YouTube copy of the new video is pretty so-so), but on the other hand, I'm always glad for any new videos we get, and this one was certainly a very nice gift to his fans for his birthday this year. ❤️
( Video link / a few highlights. )
A couple of months ago he also put out a series of behind-the-scenes videos about the making of the concert tour, which I keep meaning to share here as well. But that will have to wait for another post, since I worked all day and it's now like 1:00 am.
(I wore my one Andy Lau T-shirt with his picture on it to work today -- a bit risky, since the shirt has some Chinese text on it -- the word 今天 -- and I'm still supposed to be pretending to have zero knowledge of Chinese for whatever weird reason. But luckily I didn't get in trouble for wearing it. A few students did ask me why I was wearing a shirt with Chinese writing on it, and helpfully read it for me XD and one kid in particular seemed very amused that there was some guy's picture on my T-shirt, and kept commenting or joking about "that guy" as if he was part of our class for the day, but did not seem to recognize him as anyone in particular. XD)
In other news, I've been extremely remiss in commenting on posts (or indeed doing anything else online) recently! Work has been 100% exhausting pretty much all the time, and also I (perhaps foolishly) signed up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ficinabox, so I've been spending all my very limited not-work time trying to do a bunch of canon review and hopefully pull together 10k of something for my recipient. (I'm nowhere close yet.) >_> Will I ever have free time again? ...Maybe after Yuletide??
He didn't post anything on his website for his birthday this year, but a couple of days ago on Douyin he did put up a 2½-hour concert video from last year's concert tour. I just finally had the chance to watch it tonight, and enjoyed it a lot. ❤️ All the footage is from the Hong Kong leg of the tour, so even though I don't think any of the specific song recordings are from the nights I was in the audience, it all felt quite familiar and was fun to revisit. I do wish his company would put out proper high-quality concert DVDs like they used to do (the image quality on the YouTube copy of the new video is pretty so-so), but on the other hand, I'm always glad for any new videos we get, and this one was certainly a very nice gift to his fans for his birthday this year. ❤️
( Video link / a few highlights. )
A couple of months ago he also put out a series of behind-the-scenes videos about the making of the concert tour, which I keep meaning to share here as well. But that will have to wait for another post, since I worked all day and it's now like 1:00 am.
(I wore my one Andy Lau T-shirt with his picture on it to work today -- a bit risky, since the shirt has some Chinese text on it -- the word 今天 -- and I'm still supposed to be pretending to have zero knowledge of Chinese for whatever weird reason. But luckily I didn't get in trouble for wearing it. A few students did ask me why I was wearing a shirt with Chinese writing on it, and helpfully read it for me XD and one kid in particular seemed very amused that there was some guy's picture on my T-shirt, and kept commenting or joking about "that guy" as if he was part of our class for the day, but did not seem to recognize him as anyone in particular. XD)
In other news, I've been extremely remiss in commenting on posts (or indeed doing anything else online) recently! Work has been 100% exhausting pretty much all the time, and also I (perhaps foolishly) signed up for
ficinabox, so I've been spending all my very limited not-work time trying to do a bunch of canon review and hopefully pull together 10k of something for my recipient. (I'm nowhere close yet.) >_> Will I ever have free time again? ...Maybe after Yuletide??
Snopes.com (snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 01:00 pm
snopes_feed) wrote2025-09-27 01:00 pmWhich was discovered first, autism or Tylenol? What to know
The condition that became known as autism was described before the Tylenol brand was created. Autism's history dates back further than the drug's.
fred_mouse (fred_mouse) wrote2025-09-27 04:49 pm
fred_mouse) wrote2025-09-27 04:49 pmEntry tags:
booklists - august and september
I haven't been seeing as many booklists as I sometimes do; maybe it is the quiet part of the year for it, or maybe I've just been skimming past and not registering them. Anyway, what have I found?
from the Otherwise Award site, Celebrating work from 2022-2023: Part I a list of works to consider from the years the awards were on hiatus. I was in a 'no, no more books' mood so was reading for interest but not to put things on the wishlist.
from pangur-and-grim at tumblr, their favourite books from this year. Not normally the kind of list I'd look at, but at first glance it starts with Alien Clay, which I loved, has a couple I think I'd like and a stack I've never heard of. It also has The Last Unicorn. There are six that Greer has read, and three 'up next'. Turned out some of the ones I hadn't read were already on the wishlist; i added all but one of the rest.
at tumblr, suspiciouspopsicle said I need some good fantasy or scifi to read that doesn't involve romance., First set of replies from specialagentartemis. Sadly, their absolute favourites is three I've read and one I don't want to (saw the movie, don't care), and the weird and interesting is a mix of read it, can't find it, that doesn't sound like my thing. Second from girlfailuregawain, where the ones I recognise make me a bit meh on looking up the rest, because very much Not My Taste. There are some more in the comments, but I ran out of steam. One book added to the maybe list.
I also added two to the wishlist after reading bibliofile's notes about them.
silver_chipmunk (silver_chipmunk) wrote2025-09-26 11:07 pm
silver_chipmunk) wrote2025-09-26 11:07 pm
Al-anon and technical issues
Got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Then I puttered online for hours, not doing much of anything.
Eventually I showered and dressed, and continued puttering online.
I did read some in one of the zines I brought home from the con, not the new one I paid for but one of the freebies.
Then finally I headed into the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting. I had my pizza first of course, and got to the church by 6:30, where L met me masked, and gave me the key, and left cause she's sick. Maybe Covid.
I knew several people weren't coming, so I opened but didn't bother setting up. Then, just when I was thinking of leaving, two of the beginners showed up, so I ran both the Beginners meeting and the regular meeting. C came to the regular meeting, and drove me to the bus stop afterward.
Came home and tried to Team the FWiB. The computer wasn't working right, Teams wasn't working right, and I think there's some issue with the FWiB's iPad too. The result was awful. I had to hard restart the computer several times because it froze up. He ended up phoning me to say good night.
I turned off the computer to let it rest while I fed the pets and it seems to be working OK now.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Zines.
3. My meetings and the people there.
4. Pizza.
5. Beautiful autumn day.
6. Bed soon.
Eventually I showered and dressed, and continued puttering online.
I did read some in one of the zines I brought home from the con, not the new one I paid for but one of the freebies.
Then finally I headed into the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting. I had my pizza first of course, and got to the church by 6:30, where L met me masked, and gave me the key, and left cause she's sick. Maybe Covid.
I knew several people weren't coming, so I opened but didn't bother setting up. Then, just when I was thinking of leaving, two of the beginners showed up, so I ran both the Beginners meeting and the regular meeting. C came to the regular meeting, and drove me to the bus stop afterward.
Came home and tried to Team the FWiB. The computer wasn't working right, Teams wasn't working right, and I think there's some issue with the FWiB's iPad too. The result was awful. I had to hard restart the computer several times because it froze up. He ended up phoning me to say good night.
I turned off the computer to let it rest while I fed the pets and it seems to be working OK now.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Zines.
3. My meetings and the people there.
4. Pizza.
5. Beautiful autumn day.
6. Bed soon.